A Research On The Urban Youth Pressure In Contemporary China

Along with the accelerated process of urbanization, urban population in China has exceed rural population in 2011, taking about 51.27% of the gross population. The proportion has been increasing since then, which leads to a steady increase in population pressure. More and more people are competing for limited urban resources. The negative effects of unbalanced population structure are emerging. The social stratum structure has solidified. Under the circumstance of tough employment environment and high living costs, the stress problems of urban youths are highlighted. It is necessary to study the urban youths’ pressure and explore a suitable way for urban youths’ to deal with life stress immediately.This research is based on the Pressure-Response theoretical perspective, combining the methods of quantitative research and qualitative research. It studied the relationship between social environment and life pressure of urban youths and conducted empirical study on aspects like the current situation, influencing factors and policy suggestions of urban youths’ stress. On the basis of analyzing the current situation and influencing factors of urban youths’ stress, this paper has come to the following conclusion: 1. the social employment environment has a significant influence on life stress of urban youths. 2. The social dating and marriage environment have a weaker influence on life stress of urban youths. 3. The social interaction environment has a significant influence on life stress of urban youths. 4. The ways of coping the stress are not enough for the urban youths.Based on above research results, this paper has suggested some policy proposals to reducing the life stress of urban youths from two dimensions of perfecting social support system and enhancing individuals’ anti-pressure ability: 1. Value and strengthen the research on life stress of urban youths. 2. Standardize the organizational support system to deal with life stress. 3. Establish social culture support system to deal with life stress. 4. Perfect the family support system. 5. Introduce the professional support. 6. Improve individuals’ anti-pressure ability to deal with life stress.